Journalist C. Robert Gibson reports in The Huffington Post that Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has pulled the state out of a deep deficit and created tens of thousands of new jobs by raising taxes on the wealthy and boosting the minimum wage.

Gov. Rauner argues that raising taxes on the wealthy and big corporations will cause an exodus in the state. Rauner claims that increasing the minimum wage will cost workers their jobs. He argues that cutting services and collective bargaining is the best way to get to a balanced budget.

All the evidence points to the Gov. Rauner being dead wrong about his budget priorities.

As Gibson writes in Huffington Post:

During his first four years in office, Gov. Dayton raised the state income tax from 7.85 to 9.85 percent on individuals earning over $150,000, and on couples earning over $250,000 when filing jointly — a tax increase of $2.1 billion.

Minnesota Republicans offered dire warnings, saying that employers and the wealthiest residents would flee the state, the unemployment rate would skyrocket and Minnesotans would lose jobs en masse.